At least two cases of hunger deaths have been reported from Jabalpur district of MP and Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan in the past few weeks. The two states are run by different political parties-- the BJP and the Congress-- but there is quite a lot common in the victims’ circumstances. Both families were among the poorest in their villages but were not included in the BPL list and both the...
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Integrated Low Cost Sanitation Programme
As per the revised guidelines of Integrated Low Cost Sanitation Programme (ILCS) the target for conversion of dry latrines into twin pit PoUr latrines is by March 2010. Under the revised guidelines proposals received from the States of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar and Jammu & Kashmir were approved for conversion of 2,49,035 dry latrines in to twin pit PoUr flush latrines during the year 2008-09 and 2009-10 and funds were...
More »Dalit girl burnt alive for fighting rape
She was just 14, and as she waited at home on Monday for her parents to return, two boys broke in. They tried to rape her, and she fought back. Fed up, the two boys, both under 18, PoUred kerosene all over her, set her on fire, and left her house. Neighbours rushed to the fields where her parents were working. When they got home, their child was still alive. They...
More »Aid Money Brings a New Social Order by Akash Kapur
At the edge of Killai, a village on India’s southeast coast, there is a collection of 163 concrete houses, single-story blocks set in neat rows and surrounded by open fields. This is the neighborhood of M.G.R. Nagar, named after M.G. Ramachandran, a much-beloved actor and former chief minister in the state of Tamil Nadu. M.G.R. Nagar was built by aid agencies after the 2004 tsunami. It is home to around 300...
More »Sale of rural food items at farmers’ market soon
DINDIGUL: People visiting the farmers market at NGO Colony near here will soon get an opportunity to buy traditional rural food items and homemade products besides vegetables. It would become a single point shopping centre for consumers, said Collector M. Vallalar. He was presiding over a function that marked the concluding day of 10th anniversary of the farmers’ market at NGO Colony here on Wednesday. Selling all items including groceries, masala items...
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